Food for Thought

Gallery: WildlifePosted October 25, 2010158 views8 comments

SORRY for posting this again...I had uploaded the wrong file for the large format in my previous post...

After finishing a fine meal of dead wildebeest, this lioness' face was covered with flies, feeding on the blood and left-overs...

Masai Mara, Kenya.

Nikon D300, Nikkor AF-S VR 300mm f/2.8
ISO 400
f/8.0
1/320
This photo is NOT CROPPED.

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Brad Hill on October 25, 2010 at 11:04 AM

Hi Ingrid,

Thanks for giving us a look at the larger version. As expected - very sharp, very nice detail.

You say this image is not cropped and it was shot with the equivalent of a 450mm lens (factoring in the crop factor of the DX sensor of your camera). So you must have been quite close to it. Your commentary suggests it was not a captive lion - I'm curious about the shooting situation - care to fill us in a little? Looks to me like you must have been almost lying on the ground to get this one. Purely curious...

Cheers...thanks for sharing this...

Brad
Chee

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Comment posted by Ingrid Vekemans on October 25, 2010 at 11:15 AM

Hi Brad,
No, not captive at all - we happened to drive past this lioness who was just beside the road - it was in a 'less busy' part of the Mara so we had her all to ourselves - we carefully approached and she wasn't bothered...at a guess (I'm not good at distances ;-)) she was 3 or 4 metres from the road.
I took the photo from the open window and with the road slightly lower than where she was in the grass, I was almost at the same level. She looked straight at me a few times which was a bit...exciting...but realistically...she had just eaten so there was no danger. I think.

Thanks for your comment!
Ingrid.

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Comment posted by Dan Walters on October 25, 2010 at 12:26 PM

Amazing detail! Very nice!

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Comment posted by Vincent Grafhorst on October 25, 2010 at 2:36 PM

I was looking forward to seeing this larger! Thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Dan Harbour on October 25, 2010 at 6:30 PM

Wow. Powerful image. exquisite detail.

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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on October 25, 2010 at 10:08 PM

The eye detail is compelling! I wish you were one meter further away to not clip those long hairs...but this is startling capture.

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Comment posted by Catherine Reilly on October 26, 2010 at 11:37 AM

What a way to get your face washed… Amazing photo.

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Comment posted by Steve Canuel on October 26, 2010 at 11:50 PM

The eye really grabs my attention before I start counting all those flies! She seems quite relaxed.

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